JAP Engines and parts wanted.

A heads up for collectors of junk........Didja know the JAP 600cc engine off a Howard Gem rotary hoe can be worth up to $2000.? Must be the motor bike type ,a JAP with a UCZ engine serial prefix.....The JAP 750cc V twin motor off a pommy Autotruck (strange little 3 wheeler tug,) is worth up to $6000 if complete and in fair condition......doesnt need to run........The big JAP v twin off the railway trolley is worth $10,000.+.

Thanks John and Lang for the info, I've put it up for sale again and was asked by a prospective buyer what it fits.
John, the JAP engines are rare and collectable, I'm into old motorcycles and would like some thing pre war with a JAP single cylinder engine. There is a business in the UK manufacturing them now.

Southbound, I have got a single cylinder JAP engine but it would need a very small motor bike to go in.....

Some JAP motors are worth zillions,some are worth very little........on ebay there are hopefulls with the wrong ones trying to get zilllions.

Sarge, is the engine a 2 stroke with a curved fuel tank? If so they were used on reel mowers.
As John says the industrial engines get swept up in the mystic and aren't worth much. I have a JAP timing cover as Shed Art and it's probably all I will ever own that's JAP!

Have any of You Blokes got a JAP Fuel Cap like this..




As I have a Little JAP Motor missing the Fuel cap...

An interesting application of the JAP 600cc is as a starting engine on a big diesel......I got a Dorman 6DL in the yard had a 500cc JAP on it .....the JAP would turn over the Dorman with ease ,and start straight away......oddly its a motorbike engine from 1937 .....not an industrial.......branded VR ,so thats who owned it at one time.

Keep a watch out on the usual auction sites. They do turn up at times. Also swap meets and rallies if they ever are allowed to happen again.

Its possible replicas are being made.......I know the original tank caps made by Ceandess Ltd of Wolverhampton are still available,and for a somwhat higher price ,stamped with the old oil co logos.

I have 2 complete JAP engines. Both small vertical 4 stroke as used on single stand shearing plants. One has a oval tank the other
round . Both engines turn over . One with round tank has a brass plate with engine number and where it was made in England.
Any one interested , i would be happy to sell for realistic price. Sold as a pair. Send a PM with email address and i will get some photos
organised. Both engines have original tank and oil caps.